Not Stressing Over Small Things Quotes & Sayings

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny. — Wayne Knight

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time. — Patch Adams

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff. — Epiphana Lewis

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended. — David Graeber

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled? — Casey Wilson

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything. — James Dashner

They said it was going fine and gave him those dazed, fuck-struck smiles of which only newlyweds are capable. — Stephen King

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness. — Cullen Bunn

Gratitude opens the door to ... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. — Deepak Chopra

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. — Beverly Sills

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. — John Moody

forces on taking sugar islands in the West Indies or besieging Gibraltar or collecting an assault force for the invasion of Britain, because the place to defeat the English was in America. Pleas from the Continental Congress to the same purpose were having effect. From George Washington himself came a letter to La Luzerne, French Minister to the United States, stressing the need of naval superiority and asking for a French fleet to come to America. As forerunner, seven ships of the line under Admiral de Ternay, d'Estaing's successor, came into Newport in July, 1780, bringing a man and a small land army — Barbara W. Tuchman

Thoughtless people are not unusual," observed the Scarecrow, "but I consider them more fortunate than those who have useless or wicked thoughts and do not try to curb them. Your oil can, friend Woodman, is filled with oil, but you only apply the oil to your joints, drop by drop, as you need it, and do not keep spilling it where it will do no good. Thoughts should be restrained in the same way as your oil, and only applied when necessary, and for a good purpose. If used carefully, thoughts are good things to have. — L. Frank Baum

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness? — Ken Wilber

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [ ... ] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian Question and no Indian Department. — Duncan Campbell Scott

I used to dream about bringing a knife to therapy and slicing her into pork chop-sized pieces. — Laurie Halse Anderson

...smile first, then speak. — George Saunders